Dense spreading multistemmed glabrous shrub 0.5–2 m high. Branchlets angled to flattened at extremities; cuticle often white. Phyllodes patent to erect, narrowly elliptic to ± narrowly oblong or linear, narrowed at both ends, straight to recurved, 4–10 cm long, 4–9 mm wide, acute to subacute, innocuous to ± pungent, subrigid, smooth, greyish green, often glaucous when young; midrib and margins prominent; lateral veines absent or obscure; gland 0–3 mm above pulvinus. Inflorescences normally 4–7-headed racemes; raceme axes 6–16 mm long, enclosed when young by imbricate brown bracts; peduncles 5–11 mm long, slender; heads globular, 20–30-flowered, golden; bracteoles absent. Flowers 5-merous; sepals free. Pods shallowly curved to openly 1½-coiled, to 8 cm long, 5–8 mm wide, chartaceous. Seeds longitudinal, oblong to elliptic or ovate, 3–5 mm long, dull, dark brown to black, exarillate.
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A shrub. It grows about 3 m tall.
Often common where it occurs, growing in sand, loam or clay soils, in woodland or shrubland, sometimes on laterite or granite rocks.
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Grows in sand, loam or clay, in woodland or shrubland, sometimes on laterite or granite rocks.
Can be grown by seedlings. Seeds needs soaking.
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